{"id":10824,"date":"2012-04-02T16:33:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T16:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/04\/02\/creationism-vs-evolution-the-m\/"},"modified":"2012-04-02T16:33:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T16:33:42","slug":"creationism-vs-evolution-the-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/creationism-vs-evolution-the-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Creationism vs. evolution: the meaning to our schools and society"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>NCSE policy director Steve Newton explores the evolution of American creationism and how anti-evolution activities have changed from the Scopes era to the present. Newton explains creationism&#8217;s many faces, from dinosaurs-lived-with-humans young earthers to &#8220;intelligent design&#8221; advocates to legislators promoting &#8220;academic freedom&#8221; legislation. Newton&#8217;s talk will examine why teaching evolution&#8211;and science in general&#8211;is so important, and suggest ways for the pro-science community to counter creationist assaults on science education. Where: Oakmont Sunday Symposium, Santa Rosa, CA. When: 2\/15\/2012<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jSZXLGqMdWc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCSE policy director Steve Newton explores the evolution of American creationism and how anti-evolution activities have changed from the Scopes era to the present. Newton explains creationism&#8217;s many faces, from dinosaurs-lived-with-humans young earthers to &#8220;intelligent design&#8221; advocates to legislators promoting &#8220;academic freedom&#8221; legislation. Newton&#8217;s talk will examine why teaching evolution&#8211;and science in general&#8211;is so important, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/creationism-vs-evolution-the-m\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Creationism vs. evolution: the meaning to our schools and society<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2OA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}